{"id":284845,"date":"2025-11-26T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284845\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:56:17","slug":"budget-2025-local-businessman-warns-deindustrialised-towns-being-ignored-ahead-of-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284845\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2025: Local businessman warns deindustrialised towns being &#8216;ignored&#8217; ahead of Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pip Fallow, a local entrepreneur from County Durham, told GB News that communities feel &#8220;forgotten after decades of industrial decline&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said residents are ready to work but need Government support and investment to get local economies moving again.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fallow warned that &#8220;without action, apathy and frustration will continue to grow in towns that once powered the country\u2019s wealth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pip Fallow, a local entrepreneur from County Durham, told GB News that communities feel &#8220;forgotten after decades of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15836,84,93209,1294,2222,50,56,54,55,88857],"class_list":["post-284845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-budget-2025","tag-business","tag-clips","tag-economy","tag-money","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}